MEALY PARROT. 



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tail green, but with all the feathers except the 

 two middle ones red on their inner webs from the 

 base to two thirds of their length: the bill very 

 pale ash-colour, and the legs and feet dull grey. 

 According to Monsr. Levaillant's plate, this bird 

 should seem to measure about ten inches and 

 three quarters from the tip of the bill to the end 

 of the tail. It is said to be a native of Brasil, and 

 seems so very nearly allied to Edwards's Little 

 Green Parrot, mentioned under the description of 

 the immediately preceding species, as to make it 

 very doubtful whether Monsr. Levaillant be cor- 

 rect in maintaining either Edwards's bird to be 

 merely a young Oura-Ourao, or this to be differ- 

 ent from the bird described by Edwards, and 

 which, as has been before observed, would, in all 

 probability, have gradually displayed the distinct- 

 ive colours of the Aouro-couraou, had it been a 

 young of that species. 



MEALY PARROT. 



Psittacus pulverulentus. P. viridis albo-pulvereus, macula verii-. 



calijtava, alari mhra, remigibus apice nigro'Coeruleis, 

 Mealy-green Parrot, with yellow spot on the crown, red patch ou 



the wings, and quill-feathers blackish-blue towards the tips. 

 Psittacus pulverule at us. Mealy Parrot. Lath. 

 Meunier, ou Crik poudre. Buff, ois, 

 Le Perroquet Meunier. Levaill. pi. 92. 



This species, which was first described by Buf- 

 fon, seems to be next in size to the Aldrovandine 



